A history of Tullahoma,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Tullahoma from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Tullahoma was founded in 1852 as a work camp along the new Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. Its name is derived from the Choctaw phrase tʋli homma, meaning "red rock". An alternative explanation (see Sam Davis Elliott's Soldier of Tennessee and sources cited therein) of the name is that Peter Decherd, who donated the land for the railroad right-of-way (and was therefore given the right to name two stations along the line), named one station Decherd, after himself, and the other as Tulkahoma (later changed to Tullahoma). Tullahoma was the name of Decherd's favorite horse, which had been named for a Choctaw chief captured by Decherd's grandfather. (There was also a town called Tullahoma in Mississippi, which later changed its name to Grenada.)
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Tullahoma’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewSketch of the environs of, 1865: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Tullahoma, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Sketch of the environs of (1865) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (8), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.